Data flow project

Project to unblock biodiversity data flow

Unblocking the Flow of Biodiversity Data for Multi-Stakeholder Environmental Sustainability (2021-2023)

Aim: This multi-stakeholder collaborative project aims to bring together experts from conservation biology and business sustainability management to explore biodiversity data user needs across sectors and identify the reasons behind blockages to data flow and access. We will then use our research results to explore solutions and options for a user-friendly, open-access decision support tool to help stakeholders find the standards, guidelines, tools, methods and data they need. The project will enhance and complement global efforts by international organisations like IUCN and GEOBON to share and publicise data sources and to make existing tools and data freely available to the people who need them. This will ultimately help mainstream biodiversity data into decision-making and halt biodiversity loss.

Project goal: To assess the biodiversity data needs of international organizations, governments, civil society and business, to understand blockages to data flow and capacity development, and to produce a decision support tool to help enhance access to the methods and data necessary to facilitate monitoring and informed decision-making for conservation and sustainability.

Main partners: University of Lausanne, University of St Gallen, University of Ghana, Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute.

Main donor: Swiss Network for International Studies - SNIS.

Relevant links:

Project summary on site of main donor (SNIS)

Websites of main partners:

University of Lausanne
University of St Gallen
Centre for African Wetlands, University of Ghana
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt

For more information contact Dr PJ Stephenson ([email protected])

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